Open Call – 2017 Lumen Prize

An international open call for artists engaged with digital technology.

Deadline: June 1, 2017

Welcoming submissions from March 22, The Lumen Prize is an international award that celebrates artists working with digital technology. Now in its 6th year, The Lumen Prize has awarded over $40,000 in prize money and is committed to supporting and widening the opportunities for artists working with technology.

The competition offers a total prize fund of $10,500, plus inclusion in Lumen’s annual programme of exhibitions and events which take place across the UK and Europe.

The 2017 prizes are:

The Gold Award ($3000)

Moving Image ($1000)

Still Image ($1000)

Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality ($1000)

3D/Sculpture ($1000)

Interactive ($1000)

Web-based ($1000)

Founder’s Award ($750)

Meural Student Prize ($500)

People’s Choice Award ($250)

Entries will first be reviewed by the International Selection Committee including Carla Gannis, Kelani Nichole, Alessio de Vecchi and Scott Draves to select the Lumen Longlist, the Jury Panel will then determine the shortlist and overall category winners.

The closing date for entries is 1 June 2017 at 11:59 GMT; and the winner will be announced on September 21st in London.

In 2016 the Gold Award was presented to the Italian duo Fabio Giampietro and Alessio de Vecchi for Hyperplanes of Simultaneity, a virtual reality experience which transformed the traditional canvas into a 360° cityscape. Previous shortlisted artists and recipients of The Lumen Prize have gone on to achieve success around the world including the British artist Andy Lomas, whose 2014 winning work Cellular Forms is now in the collection of the V&A; Alexandra Handal, winner of the 2014 People’s Choice Gold Award, whose web-based Dream Homes Property Consultants has recently been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; and Michael Takeo Magurder, recipient of the 2015 Immersive Environments Award for A New Jerusalem, who is currently artist-in-residence at The British Library.

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